Tuesday, March 29, 2016

One of the biggest reasons why people have such bitter disdain for lawyers as a whole is because over time, that class of elites will end up taking over an entire government. And besides the natural positions within the Supreme and District Courts that are stocked full with former J.D.’s, the current President and Vice-President are also former lawyers, with a majority of the House and Senate coming from that vocation as well.

At the start of the 114th Congress on Tuesday, the U.S. Capitol will be a little less lawyerly. But not by much. Members of Congress holding J.D.s will sit in 160 of the House of Representatives’ 435 seats and 53 of the Senate’s 100. – National Law Journal

So perhaps it comes as no surprise that those who run the government would look out for their own far more than the overall American people. And on March 28, a new ruling out of the U.S. Bankruptcy court in Brooklyn, NY provided a way for students who work towards law degrees to be allowed to dismiss their student loans, while the other 99.4% of in-debt American students are left out in the cold.